Welcome to the UK! We have the pleasure of paying for this and the prices go up each year as well.
I think it's an absolute joke that we now have to do an hours break down into every category you could think of for the ATPL issue. When before they did it.
I had no problem paying XXX as they had to sit there and do it, now I have to do it and for them to say ok thanks, but we can't issue it to you unless you cross the T's and dot the I's.